A narrowboats journey through repair, cruising, and other joys of the english waterways.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Cousins and Sunshine

Cousins are great! I find myself moored near to two of my cousins, and had a fabulous evening catching up with one of them on Monday night. Yesterday I saw the other, Jess, and her new (although 6 months old now) son, Will. I went back to their house, showered (bliss) and joined them for supper after cousins husband Nick returned from a hard day at work. Nick has a fantastic video of Hook Norton Brewery, which has a steam engine, I really must pay the place a visit sometime.

I have awoken to blazing sunshine this morning, all in preparation for the deluge we are promised at the weekend. I am rather perturbed by the prospect of boating in strong winds - the wind is a complete pain when single handed, once the bow is stuck in bushes there isn't a great deal one can do. There was many a time when I first started boating that I moored up in bushes (albeit forcibly by the wind) and carried on with daily life - I must have looked a site crawling through hawthorns and walking around with twigs in my hair!

Matt from Tooleys boat yard is doing a great job re-routing the diesel system and making it sound. The exhaust system should be going in today, and then they will clean the bilges out before it is all complete. I am really looking forward to getting away.